/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>>7796928
>takes request seriously
>doesn't deliver and expects to be paid over six months later

>customer is the one who lost money
>but the commissioner needs to be reimbursed because over 9000 hours of PATTERN GUESSING

>>6556760
I'm white but I don't see how my race would affect my judgment towards liking someone who went to college early, has their doctorate, likes science, and seems like a likable person. Over someone who's a HYUCKHYUCKNERDGIRLGAMURQUEENOFTHEWOWLOLZXD
Fuck.

It actually makes me sick how I can spend $350 just to get one item, OP. To me that's what's insane especially for the quality, and the long-term wear of lolita clothes.
I mean, if I think about it I would only wear the dress a few times a year to meetups or something. And eventually, like all clothes, I'll probably get bored with it and sell it anyway.

While I don't donate to charities, I prefer spending money on practical things that I can use over and over again. Like books, or cookware, or things for my house or car. I can buy multiples of these kinds of things with that money instead of one dress.
That's what strikes me as so indulgent about lolita clothes.
If I do buy them, I try to buy handmade or secondhand. I received brand items once as a Christmas gift, but that's it. And it hurts me that I rarely wear the dress I got and I'm too scared to carry around the $300 purse.
>srsly mfw the thought of ruining those clothes

And don't get me wrong, power to the people who can spend that kind of money on a dress and not feel guilty, or their lives don't face the financial impact for whatever reason. I think people should do what makes them personally happy.
It's just that I don't think girls these days are buying lolita to make themselves happy so much as show off and keep up in the rat race that is Japanese fashion. That's sad.